What Happened on the Last Season of The Walking Dead? (Season 11)

Stella Aurora

The Walking Dead season 11 is the final season. It debuts on August 22, 2021, with 24 episodes. Critics rates the eleventh season with high marks thus far.

Commonwealth is a massive network of communities with modern equipment and over fifty thousand survivors living in many settlements. It is the center of this season, adapting material from issues #175–193 of the comic book series.

The season also centers on the group’s encounter with the Reapers, a mystery organization of hostile survivors who invaded and took Meridian, Maggie’s new people, the Wardens’ former home.

The Walking Dead Final Season Recap

Episode 1 - Acheron: Part I

Maggie (Lauren Cohan) leads a team, including Daryl Dixon (Norman Reedus), Father Gabriel (Seth Gilliam), Alden, (Callan McAuliffe), and Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) to scavenge Meridian. She resides in this location before returning to Alexandria when Alexandria’s food supply ran out.

Auditors from the Commonwealth question Eugene (Josh McDermitt), Ezekiel (Khary Payton), Yumiko (Eleanor Matsuura), and Princess (Paola Lázaro) elsewhere. They manage to flee the outpost, but Yumiko discovers that her brother may be present, so they decide to stay.

The party of Maggie enters a subway station, but walkers are attacking them. Daryl and Dog become far from the rest of the party as they climb a subway car ladder to safety. Maggie is the final one to climb the ladder, but as she tries, Negan abandons her, and she loses her grasp and falls.

Episode 2 - Acheron: Part II

Maggie manages to flee the walkers and rejoins the leading group inside the subway vehicle, where she reveals how Negan abandoned her.

Gage (Jackson Pace), who escapes with Roy (C. Thomas) and the group’s supplies, returns, but a horde of walkers follow them. Maggie refuses to save him, prompting Gage to stab himself before the walkers consume them. Daryl and Dog locate Roy and Daryl, who is hurt. He returns to the gang, assisting them in escaping the horde led by Gage.

The reapers attack and kill Roy when the party exits the metro station. Yumiko requests that the Commonwealth auditors process her case quickly. Eugene tells Mercer (Michael James Shaw) about Stephanie (Margot Bingham) and claims he is not a part of a broader settlement, persuades Mercer, and enables the gang to finish their work. A woman, Stephanie, is introduced.

Episode 3 - Hunted

The reapers ambush Maggie’s company in the woods, who kill Cole and Duncan and scatter the group. They follow her the next day. Still, she eventually joins Negan and Alden, the latter who swears he is too hurt to continue and wishes to be left behind. Maggie and Negan acquire supplies from an Arbor Hills supply facility without Alden. Carol (Melissa McBride), Rosita (Christian Serratos), Magna (Nadia Hilker), and Kelly (Angel Theory) arrive in Alexandria to retrieve some of the community’s runaway horses. Carol must slay one of them to feed the hungry people.

Episode 4 - Rendition

Daryl is far from the Dog after one of the reapers follows him. Soon, he discovers Dog relaxing next to a female reaper, who turns out to be Daryl’s old romantic partner, Leah (Lynn Collins). The group then imprisons Daryl and tortures him for information at Meridian. Leah persuades Daryl to tell the group’s leader, Pope (Ritchie Coster), something to appease him, and he does so with minimum details.

As part of a test set up by Pope, they imprison Daryl and Leah inside a shed, then set fire to it. The two manage to flee. Pope makes certain that Daryl is accepted into the group. Still, Daryl appears uneasy about the arrangement after witnessing Pope’s bizarre handling of a group member.

Episode 5 - Out of the Ashes

Carol, Aaron (Ross Marquand), Jerry (Cooper Andrews), and Lydia (Cassady McClincy) search the remnants of the Hilltop Colony for supplies and discover a small group of remaining Whisperers. Aaron tortures the leader, demanding answers and insisting that they are no longer a threat; Carol intervenes before Aaron does something he will regret.

The Whisperer informs the group about Connie’s whereabouts in exchange for his life being spared. They decide to go looking for her the following day. Eugene, Ezekiel, Yumiko, and Princess attend Commonwealth orientation.

Yumiko sees her brother Tomi again. Stephanie offers to help Eugene contact Alexandria on the radio as they tour the neighborhood. The community troops apprehend and detain them before being freed on the orders of Lance Hornsby, the deputy governor and director of operations.

Maggie and Negan make their way through the woods, stopping in a neighborhood house to wait for the others. Gabriel and Elijah (Okea Eme-Akwari) soon join them. Judith (Cailey Fleming) has a run-in with the local teenagers in Alexandria.

Episode 6 - On the Inside

Connie and Virgil are trying to survive together. A bunch of unstable people pursues them into a home inhabited by cannibals. A group consisting of Kelly, Magna, Carol, and Rosita rescue the sisters and are finally together after defeating most of the cannibals. For the location of Maggie’s refuge, Daryl tortures Frost (Glenn Stanton).

While reconnoitering with a group of reapers under the command of Leah, Daryl makes every effort to keep his friends safe from the search. Despite the reaper Carver’s concerns about Daryl, Maggie’s group manages to flee. After additional interrogation, Leah’s crew learns that Pope kills Frost when they return to Meridian.

Episode 7 - Promises Broken

Eugene, Ezekiel, Princess, and Stephanie are to render community service and clean walkers from buildings at the Commonwealth. Eugene and Stephanie defend Sebastian Milton (Teo Rapp-Olsson), Governor Pamela Milton’s son, from walkers. Still, when Sebastian is ungrateful, Eugene hits him and ends himself in jail.

If Eugene gives away Alexandria’s location, Lance promises him freedom and assistance for his town. Due to their inability to locate Maggie’s squad, the reapers are becoming increasingly irritated. Daryl and Leah come across a family in the woods, and against Pope’s orders, Leah refuses to kill them. Maggie grudgingly agrees to cease plotting to assassinate Negan in exchange for his assistance in defeating the reapers.

Maggie is given a Whisperer mask by Negan, and she is taught how to command walkers so that they can assault Meridian. During their initial meeting, Negan acknowledges to Maggie that he should kill Rick’s entire group to convince her of his honesty.

Episode 8 - For Blood

When a storm hits Alexandria, the survivors battle to keep zombies at bay while some of the city’s defenses crumble. After one reaper is killed by the disguised group amid the horde, Maggie’s gang leads their flock to Meridian.

As night falls, the reapers deploy field mines to decimate the horde. Daryl assists Maggie and Gabriel in infiltrating Meridian and allowing walkers inside before confessing his allegiance to Maggie to Leah. Leah kills Pope as he prepares to fire a hwacha at both walker and reaper.

Despite Daryl’s invitation to join his organization, Leah declines, keeping loyal to her family and taking command of the reapers. Leah reveals Daryl’s steadfast loyalty to the other reapers and uses the hwacha to assault the group.

Episode 9 - No Other Way

The reapers’ hwacha destroys the herd, but Maggie’s gang manages to flee and engages in a dangerous cat and mouse battle with the reapers, killing dozens. The group captures Carver, whom Daryl offers in exchange for Leah and the others peacefully leaving. Leah accepts the offer after Gabriel kills their sniper.

Except for Leah, who Daryl lets escape, an angry Maggie kills all the other reapers in cold blood. Maggie returns in search of Alden, only to find him dead. Negan decides to leave alone, knowing that Maggie will never forgive him.

The remaining members of Maggie’s squad deliver the food to Alexandria. Daryl reunites with Connie, and Eugene comes with Lance Hornsby and the Commonwealth. Maggie is managing a colony in the ruins of the Hilltop six months later, and she is fighting Commonwealth soldiers under the command of Daryl.

Episode 10 - New Haunts

It is Halloween and they celebrate it thirty days after the Alexandrians join the Commonwealth. Daryl and Rosita are preparing to enter the Commonwealth military, and the rest of the group is still trying to fit into the wealthy society.

Tyler Davis, a former soldier, takes “Max” hostage during Governor Pamela Milton’s masquerade event out of the desire to talk to Pamela but flees. Daryl convinces him to peacefully surrender, and Sebastian takes credit for his capture. Several group members are also aware of the Commonwealth’s vast class difference.

Episode 11 - Rogue Element

Eugene starts dating Stephanie and tells her he loves her; immediately after she responds that she also loves him, she unexpectedly vanishes. Eugene is always looking for Stephanie and breaks into a man’s house in search of evidence but is unsuccessful. Princess argues that she must dump him.

Eugene soon discovers Stephanie collaborating with Lance for an unknown objective. He convinces Lance that Stephanie is a plant named Shira. She is employed to persuade Eugene to divulge the location of Alexandria. Despite Shira breaking his heart, Lance tells Eugene that the group is better off now.

In the meantime, Connie and Kelly look into the Commonwealth military’s treatment of Tyler Davis. Carol assists Lance in dealing with a nearby village whose leader is extorting money from the Commonwealth. Later, Eugene is approached by Max, who exposes herself to be the woman with whom he communicates over the radio.

Episode 12- The Lucky Ones

Max Mercer, who uses her mother’s name as a code name, introduces herself to Eugene. Despite her desire to meet Eugene, once her brother Mercer learned of it, he hushes it up. When Lance knew of her break in communication etiquette, she remains silent when seeing Eugene with Shira.

Eugene storms away because he is too heartbroken. Still, he returns to reconcile with Max, and the two show lingering feelings for each other. Meanwhile, Pamela visits the Coalition’s villages and is not content to learn that Alexandria is under their command multiple times. Pamela travels to Hilltop after meeting with Oceanside, where she challenges Maggie about their differing leadership styles and forms of government.

Maggie is wary of the Commonwealth and refuses to accept assistance from them to the chagrin of several Hilltop residents who have decided to join the Commonwealth. Maggie’s decision frustrates Lance.

Still, he assures Aaron that he will persevere in freeing himself from Pamela’s grip. Meanwhile, Lance has bumped up the queue as a favor to Carol.

Episode 13 - Warlords

Aaron and Gabriel are recruited by Aaron’s boss Toby Carlson to take point on an outreach mission with a community in an apartment complex to offer them membership with the Commonwealth. The group’s leader, Ian, meets with Aaron, Gabriel, Carlson, and Jesse, believing them to be enemies. Though Aaron and Gabriel talk Ian into letting them leave with their lives,

Carlson attacks and kills him and many of his people. Carlson assigns Lance to wipe out the complex, believing them responsible for an attack on a Commonwealth caravan. Gabriel reunites with Negan, who has joined the complex community. The latter covertly sends a message to Hilltop with the fleeing Jesse. Maggie, Lydia, and Elijah go to the difficult to fight the Commonwealth troops after reuniting with Aaron.

Episode 14 - The Rotten Core

Sebastian coerces Daryl and Rosita into going to a walker-infested residence to gather a stash of cash for him after his mother shuts off his credit line. The two recover the money and attempt to assist April, a woman who was earlier compelled by Sebastian to do the assignment.

Among many others who die in the process, Mercer and Carol help them, but the walkers kill April. Mercer assassinates two loyal Commonwealth troopers and orders Daryl and Rosita to deliver the money, fearing retaliation if they don’t.

The group joins forces with Negan, Annie, and the complex survivors at the complex, where they discover that Negan marries Annie and is expecting a child with her. Negan rescues Hershel, who goes away in Maggie’s truck. He compels him to confess to Glenn’s murder, nearly killing him. They conn and kill Carlson, and Leah raids the Commonwealth convoy and weapons.

Episode 15 - Trust

Lance interrogates Gabriel and Aaron before leading a contingent of Commonwealth troopers to Hilltop to question Maggie. Lance grills Hershel about Maggie’s possible involvement, setting off a heated standoff in which Elijah and Maggie threaten Lance. He meets Leah after leaving Hilltop and hires her for a job.

Mercer and Princess engage in a sexual relationship in the meanwhile. They suspect that Mercer kills his own troops. Eugene calls in Connie and Kelly to report what happens with Sebastian when Rosita tells him about it. They recognize April as one of the names on Connie’s list.

Eugene persuades Max to continue assisting him on the inside, and the two share their first kiss. Ezekiel, inspired by Carol and his new lease on life, creates a hidden clinic for those on the waiting list, enlisting Tomi’s assistance with surgery.

Episode 16 - Acts of God

Lance begins planning an attack on the Hilltop after deciding that negotiating with Maggie is futile. Maggie entrusts Hershel to Negan and Annie, informing them that she is starting to trust them. Leah abducts Maggie after she is lured away from the colony. Commonwealth soldiers betray Daryl, Aaron, and Gabriel are betrayed.

The trio avoids the enemies. In the process, Aaron is hurt. Leah takes Maggie to her old cabin. She threats her. Maggie breaks free and attacks Leah. When Daryl arrives, he kills Leah. As Lance and his soldiers approach the cabin, Maggie and Daryl flee. Daryl, Maggie, Aaron, and Gabriel meet with Negan and prepare to fight the Commonwealth.

Max examines Pamela Milton and gathers a group of Alexandrians to write a newspaper story regarding Pamela’s lies. Lance and his troopers seize control of Alexandria, Hilltop, and Oceanside and decide the destiny of Oceanside’s population by flipping a coin.

The Walking Dead Quick Facts

  • a post-apocalyptic horror TV show television show from the United States
  • The Walking Dead franchise’s core comprises Robert Kirkman, Tony Moore, and Charlie Adlard.
  • Under the production of AMC Studios in the state of Georgia
  • Most of the filming occurs in Riverwood Studios’ outdoor settings outside Senoia, Georgia.
  • Frank Darabont, who also served as showrunner for the first season, adapted the comic
  • Darabont’s resignation from the series was caused by problems with AMC, which resulted in various lawsuits by Darabont and others
  • Following that, showrunners Glen Mazzara, Scott M Gimple, and Angela Kang took over
  • premiered on October 31, 2010
  • In the United States, it is only shown on the cable channel AMC and internationally through the Fox Networks Group and Disney
  • received various TV awards including 16 Nominations and 2 Emmys
  • has spin-offs including The Walking Dead World Beyond and Tales of the Walking Dead

The Walking Dead Plot

Because of the fall of modern civilization, the survivors are forced to interact with other human survivors. They form organizations and communities with their own laws and morality, which might lead to open, aggressive confrontation. A group of survivors is forced to fight man-eating zombies for their life. Rick Grimes, a Sheriff Deputy who was shot before the apocalypse, is the primary character in the show.

Before the zombie outbreak, Rick is going to a nearby hospital. Rick recovers from his coma to find himself alone in a hospital. He realizes he is in a universe, unlike anything he had ever seen. Rick displays dominance and strength throughout the series, demonstrating his machismo over the crew.

Will There be The Walking Dead Season 12?

There will no longer be a production of Season 12 of The Walking Dead. Storyline in the comic book has also come to an end. Still, because the series does not always follow that story, it is expected to last much longer.

The 11th season of The Walking Dead divides into three sections, each with eight episodes. Part one aired in 2021, and part two on AMC on February 20, 2022.

Another spin-off, Tales of the Walking Dead, will premiere in the summer of 2022. It will be an anthology series that will expand the world of TWD. This series will tell stories that might take place in any universe chronology and include any characters, new or old. It’s a fantastic notion for a show. We hope they’ll exploit it to its maximum potential and deliver some fantastic stuff.

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